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#31

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by Daniel3D - October 08, 2025, 09:55:33 AM

Amazing, @dstien! 
Is it possible to isolate the physical engine for analysis?  I feel that many parts of the code, such as the menus, file loading functions, etc., would be easier to rewrite than to port, and the graphics engine, while more significant, is the one that could use an upgrade, but the physics engine is crucial so that we can actually reproduce the behaviour, remain replay-compatible, etc. If we could work shell by shell around the physics engine, great things could be achieved!

If we can isolate the part that replay dump uses I think we are halfway there. Maybe there is a "live" version of that calculation but I'm not sure.

That is the hart of the game, if we understand that part fully we can hook it to CAS his graphics engine, replace the track editor with a simplified version of bliss, replace the car and opponent selection and extend the track elements library with new and exciting possibilities. (For example, add snow, sand and dirt to the grass and water terrain options).

If we don't get to understand it fully, everything except the track elements library is still possible..

#32

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by Daniel3D - October 08, 2025, 09:44:09 AM

Particularly the database from the program whose vendor has a history of refusing to sell to people outside the infosec clique.

isn't that like the myth that IDA dropped DOS support (which is only true for IDA freeware versions)

i know serveral private people that bought an IDA license - like me - without any infosec background

Still, the fact remains that IDA is a pain in the but, especially for those that don't use it enough to warrant a paid licence. So whatever way you look at it, the Ghidra conversion makes a huge difference.

#33

Season's Chat - CCC / Re: an idea for 2025 Christmas...

Last post by Daniel3D - October 07, 2025, 10:20:15 PM

Hey guys, i was thinking about christmas special for 2025, and it would include rally cars only and the tracks would be snow (it can be dirt or asphalt or mixed).

A race on mixed roads with stunts rally class cars*

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*)   For those not familiar with the
distinction: these are cars that are
tuned to perform better on dirt and
ice than average.
I love the idea. Looking forward to it.

#34

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT291 - The Fjords

Last post by alanrotoi - October 07, 2025, 06:17:25 PM

Thank you! When you look at the map, or when you drive through?

I mean from the map

#35

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by llm - October 07, 2025, 10:08:55 AM

Particularly the database from the program whose vendor has a history of refusing to sell to people outside the infosec clique.

isn't that like the myth that IDA dropped DOS support (which is only true for IDA freeware versions)

i know serveral private people that bought an IDA license - like me - without any infosec background

#36

Custom Cars with Stressed / Re: Compatibility issue

Last post by Matei - October 07, 2025, 08:45:24 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library

SDL is not bloated and those guys took care of everything::

https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat/releases

https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/releases

Again:

Ok, then let's statically compile the entire operating system into the program, and while we're at it, the computer and also a nuclear power plant, just to be sure.

Problems with FreeBASIC:

http://freebasic.net/

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And does it support Wayland? If it doesn't, have you statically linked X11 to your programs? Btw, the distribution I use uses X11 and I still can't run your programs and again:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/simple3d/

SDL_grf - functions for 2D/3D graphics (lines, circles, discs, rectangles, triangles, text and 2D or 3D models composed of triangles), sound and input, written in C;

That's for both SDL 1 and SDL 2. I suppose that adapting them for SDL 3 wouldn't be very complicated, but it's not necessary, as can be deduced from above.

#37

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by Cas - October 06, 2025, 11:33:59 PM

Amazing, @dstien! 
Is it possible to isolate the physical engine for analysis?  I feel that many parts of the code, such as the menus, file loading functions, etc., would be easier to rewrite than to port, and the graphics engine, while more significant, is the one that could use an upgrade, but the physics engine is crucial so that we can actually reproduce the behaviour, remain replay-compatible, etc. If we could work shell by shell around the physics engine, great things could be achieved!

#38

Custom Cars with Stressed / Re: Compatibility issue

Last post by Cas - October 06, 2025, 11:30:10 PM

I happens when you use C too. You can only avoid it if you have absolutely everything statically liked. Unfortunately, nowadays, libraries are bloated and designed in a way that makes that completely impractical. In GNU, there's an additional problem because the system is designed to make it very hard to link things statically. In the end, we're forced to use virtual layers, such as Wine, JVM, SDL or DOSBox because programs break from a computer to another or from an OS version to the next and as a result, nobody truly knows how to program a real computer anymore.

#39

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by Duplode - October 06, 2025, 12:43:23 PM

This is fantastic work @dstien , thank you so much! Can't wait to try it out! (Yes, I've been repeating this since the beginning of the year about e.g. @HerrNove 's improvements, but hopefully I'll stop getting sidetracked anytime soon! 😅) No longer needing the IDA-centric workflows and having the 32-bit symbols as a reference should be a huge boon to analysis.

#40

Custom Cars with Stressed / Re: Compatibility issue

Last post by Matei - October 06, 2025, 07:50:27 AM

That's what happens when you don't use C.